Comment on Avoiding doomsday: a "proof" of the self-indication assumption

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:37:06 GMT

In effect he has given me no information, and I could be anyone.

How is it the case that you could be in the year 1509 trial, when it is in fact 2009? (omega says so)

Is it also possible that you are someone from the quite likely 2109 trial? (and so on into the future)

That depends on how Omega selected me as the one to estimate the probability.

I was thinking he could tell every created person the results of all the other trials. I agree that if your are selected for something (information revelatiion, betting, whatever), then information about how you were selected could hint at the color of your door.

Information about the results of any other trials tells you nothing about your door.

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